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Read paragraph 23.
(23) 'Of course some one might cut them down. The boy lowered his voice; it seemed shameful to mention the perpetration of
such a deed aloud. It would be terrible to hear them groan when the axe struck them. The young ones mightn't mind so much;
but it would be bad for the grandfather trees who've been here from the beginning. Hannah says one would still hear them
wailing on stormy nights."
The author uses personification, such as hear them groan, in this paragraph to explain how